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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.
(a) Freaks.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Rich.
(d) Dark corners.

2. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.
(a) Abject.
(b) True.
(c) Duly earned.
(d) Extreme.

3. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1935.

4. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.
(a) Rich.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Honest.
(d) Normal.

5. With the help of captions, photographs can be made to speak, but the caption is obviously ____________.
(a) Judgemental.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Artifice.
(d) Biased.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?

2. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

3. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

4. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.

5. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.

(see the answer key)

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